October 2013 AWIB Meeting
• Agenda
Tuesday – October 15, 2013
8:30 – Introduction
• Call to Order – Chair Lynch
• Roll Call – Executive Director Dahlstrom -
AWIB Roster
• Opening Remarks – Chair Lynch
• Agenda Approval – Chair Lynch
• Next Meeting Date – Proposed January 29 - 30, 2014 Southeast Alaska
• Welcome – Commissioner Dianne Blumer
•
New Member Biographies
• Distinguished Guests
9:00 – Department of Labor and Workforce Development (DOLWD):
• Update – Commissioner Dianne Blumer
• STEP Process, Wanetta Ayers, DOLWD, Acting Director, Division of Business Partnerships
10:00 – Activities Pertinent to AWIB
• Board Chair – Jim Lynch
• Executive Director – Nancy Dahlstrom
10:30 – Break
10:45 – Reports: Wanetta Ayers, DOLWD, Acting Director, Division of Business Partnerships
•
Roles for Workforce Investment Boards
• Oil and Gas Workforce Plan
11:15 – Public Testimony
12:00 – Lunch
12:45 – Department of Labor and Workforce Development Budget – Paloma
Harbour, DOLWD, Director, Administrative Services Division
1:15 – Committee Chair Reports
• Executive – Jim Lynch
• Workforce Readiness and Employment & Placement
• Legislative – John Cannon
• Assessment and Evaluation – Ken Peltier
• Youth Council – Mike Woods
• Policy and Planning – Doug Ward
2:15 – Break
2:30 – Training Program Reporting:
Not Just a Report, a Report Card – Dan Robinson, DOLWD, Chief, Research and Analysis
3:00 – Airport and Railroad Economic and Workforce Development Impacts in Alaska – John Parrott, Accredited Airport Executive, Airport Manager and Dale Wade, Vice President, Marketing and Customer Service, Alaska Railroad Corporation
4:00 – Alaska Health Workforce Coalition – Kathy Craft, Director, Alaska Health Workforce Coalition; Dennis Murray, Senior Program Officer, Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association; and Katy Branch, Director, University of Alaska Anchorage, Office of Health Programs
AWIB Presentation
2012 Vacancy Study AWIB Presentation
5:00 – Recess
5:30 – 7:30 – Reception – Location to be determined
Wednesday – October 16, 2013
8:30 – Introductions
• Call to Order – Chair Lynch
• Roll Call – Executive Director Dahlstrom
• Agenda Approval – Chair
8:45 – Action Items:
• 2014 AWIB Calendar Approval -
2014 Draft Calendar
• Chair and Vice-Chair Elections
9:15 – Reports:
• Prisoner Reentry Program – Melissa Hermansen, Project Coordinator, Nine Star
and Alaska Prisoner Reentry Taskforce and Brad Gillespie, DOLWD, Regional Manager,
Southcentral Job Centers, Employment Security Division
• Military training credits – (HB 84) – Mike Shiffer, DOLWD, Assistant Director, Division of Business
Partnerships
10:00 – Break
10:15 – Economic Outlook – Bill Popp, President & CEO, Anchorage Economic
Development Corporation and Dan Robinson, DOLWD, Chief, Research and
Analysis
10:30 – Report from Economic Development Organizations – Bill Popp, President & CEO, Anchorage Economic Development Corporation; Marty Metiva, Executive Director, Mat-Su Resource Conservation and Development Council, Inc.; Sue Cogswell, Executive Director, Prince William Sound ` Economic Development District; and Andy Varner, Executive Director, Southwest Alaska Municipal Conference
11:20 – Updates from Board Members on the Economic and Workforce Development Projects in their Region
12:15 – Lunch
1:00 – Alaska Health Care Commission – Deborah Erickson, Executive Director, Alaska Health Care Commission
2:00 – Board Observations
3:00 – Adjourn
Next meeting Proposed – January 29 – 30, 2014 ~ Southeast Alaska
